CLIFFWOOD – Sending a message on the eve of the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Gov. Chris Christie immersed himself in a sea of orange LIUNA love this afternoon at the side of Laborers leader Ray Pocino.

TRENTON – Two bills intended to provide greater public access to agencies that typically are not subject to such laws – as well as make it easier to obtain records – are up for a vote Thursday in the Senate.

House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) veered off the bipartisan course he had been charting toward a broad tax-and-entitlement deal with President Obama and instead Tuesday pushed a GOP package to extend tax cuts for income up to $1 million.

Albany, N.Y. — New York’s highest court on Thursday upheld claims for enhanced disability and death benefits initially denied for three police officers who claimed their cancers resulted or worsened from rescue, recovery and cleanup work at the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

A Trenton-based trade group that represents New Jersey supermarkets and food suppliers opposes the proposed 5-cent fee on paper and plastic grocery bags that advanced in the state Senate Monday, claiming it would be a burden on consumers.

Federal gov’t should pay for New Jersey, New York’s Sandy rebuilding, poll shows

TRENTON – Most voters think the federal government should foot the bill for New Jersey and New York to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll released today.

MINNEAPOLIS – Investors shunned some of the nation’s largest gun makers Tuesday in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shooting, including making plans to sell the company that manufactures the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle used in the bloody attack.

NEWTOWN, Conn. — As a teenager, Adam Lanza would come in for a haircut about every six weeks without speaking or looking at anyone and always accompanied by his mother, said stylists at a salon in the town where Lanza gunned down 27 people last week, including his mother, before killing himself.

WASHINGTON — Congressional gun rights supporters showed an increased willingness Tuesday to consider new legislation to control firearms in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shootings — provided it also addresses mental health issues and the impact of violent video games.

IT IS December and across America, little children dress as angels in Christmas pageants. They giggle. Fidget. Parents beam waiting to hug their child and tell him or her that there never was such an angel before.